“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

your existence, you

 

The mood was strange.

 

two were seriously fighting, but they couldn’t take their eyes off one

 

around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that.

 

were almost chest to chest

 

appearance you’re at

 

just came out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot

 

doing here, then? Hurry up and

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

as if there was still space left between

 

you don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close to her. There

 

her size, but

 

where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of the

 

for a while now, and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple

 

macabre. Sad and hopeless and

 

eyes

 

a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from the outside looking in. I

 

woman smiled at me—a meaningless, sad

 

my chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to see previously

 

The woman was me.

 

Borgia, that’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

check, to see, to make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t

 

plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows

 

***

 

shining right into my eyes had me twitching, trying to

 

that came to me was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift

 

got me here? What happened at

 

I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm underneath me jostling me

 

I wanted to cry.

 

looking like he hadn’t just gone

 

at him, taking him in, my eyes leaving no

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater than anything else at the

 

was low and hoarse, almost a whisper in the soft breeze.

 

It felt like

 

and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like a movie stuck on repeat in

 

my own body thinking about

 

like him, the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed out. “Because I

 

“What…?”

 

for a long time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once

 

something that had revealed itself to

 

of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and

 

been like

 

“Always.”

 

lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at.

 

in a situation where I’m hated without doing anything. I can’t seem

 

traveled around his eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the

 

silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing

 

he could embrace me fully, enveloping me in

 

burying my head in the juncture where

 

didn’t understand why my

 

dream, but I didn’t remember it

 

like that. Because it’s not your fault.

 

arrogant

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